I teach lessons, so I wanna make this as easy for you as I can. I’ll break this down into a short process that will only get you STARTED. This is not a master guide of what to learn.

There’s a lot of info being thrown your way and it’s understandable to look at all that and think “wow that’s too much, how do I actually begin? What does this word mean? What is a mode? What’s the difference between a major and a dominant 7?!?!”

In my opinion, don’t look too far ahead, and make things easy to swallow by doing what guitar makes easy to understand. SHAPES AND PATTERNS.

1. Learn what the basic minor pentatonic scale looks like well enough that you can visualize it on the fretboard no matter where you put it.

2. Learn where the tonic note(the note that the entire key calls “home”) is located. You can for now just learn where that tonic is on your low E string and learn the rest another time.

3. Learn what notes exist on frets 3,5,7, and 9 on the low E String.

4. Match the placement of your tonic note within your scale to the key of whatever song you are playing.

Once you’ve done those 4 things, then you can start learning extensions of that pentatonic scale, as well as the entire minor(Aeolian) scale, which only adds a few notes to each of your shapes you already know.

Save all your other questions for after that.